In microelectronics has been a noticeable bias or, if anything, the trend towards a variety of flexible solutions that do not require substrates made of glass or silicon (eg, flexible electronics based on polysilicon ). That displays no exception , even such exotic as Quantum dot display.
So what is this wonderful object such quantum dot? If we take a piece of semiconductor (silicon or cadmium sulfide, for example) and start to split it in the dark under a violet lamp, then at some point we will see the luminescence. At the same time, the smaller the particle size of the semiconductor or квантовой point , the shorter the wavelength of the luminescence we can observe (a shift in the blue region of the spectrum). These things explained the phenomenon of increasing the width of the запрещённой semiconductor zone with decreasing nanoparticle size. A similar phenomenon is observed, if we connect the quantum dot to the battery, and it is called электролюминесценция. Highlighting your watch probably working on this effect.
Forbidden Zone or semiconductor nanoparticle diameter and color of the solution of core-shell nanoparticles, as well as the range of materials for the manufacture of quantum dots with desired optical properties. Источник
Thus, to get a red, green or blue color we do not need to develop new materials and technologies for their application as, for example, was the OLED-displays. Instead, we can synthesize 3 different solution and just mix them to get the specified color, or used individually to create pixels of the display. Accordingly, scientists from the opening of quantum dots at the dawn of the 90s began to think about using them in displays, especially after the successful introduction of LCD matrices.
However, to implement his plan was not so easy, and until the beginning of zero real working prototype of a display pixel or simply did not exist. Just a couple of years ago, in 2011, company Samsung, intrigued by new types of displays, conducted a series of investigations, thereby creating a full QLED ( quantum dots light emitting diode ) display.
In recent work , published in the journal ACSNano , a group of scientists from Singapore and Turkey, introduced the concept of a very flexible display on quantum dots, which - who knows - maybe a couple of years will be announced along with the new Samsung 7, for example.